J. David Forbes, M.D., ABoIM, is the Founder and Director of Nashville Integrated Medicine, Past President of the American Holistic Medical Association ( now the AIHM, www.aihm.org ) a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Integrative Medicine, and is also Board-certified by the newest Integrative Medicine Boards, the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABoIM). Required training for doctors board-certified in Integrative/Holistic Medicine includes natural, herbal, nutritional, body/mind, emotional and spiritual approaches to healing and their integration with traditional medicine.
His internship and residency in Internal Medicine was completed at North Carolina Baptist Hospital/Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest) in Winston-Salem, NC in 1993. He was board-certified in Internal Medicine in 1994 and has over 10 years’ experience in Emergency Medicine.
He is fully trained in PEER® Therapy (Primary Emotional Energy Recovery) by the founders Dan Jones and John Lee since 1993. PEER is a form of experiential, body-based stress counseling work, and Dr. Forbes has counseled through this process for over 25 years. He has also cultivated a meditation-based spiritual practice for over 30 years that involves working with the energy of the body, developing intuitive skills, and allowing our internal spiritual energy to guide the healing process.
Dr. Forbes leads retreats focusing on emotional process healing and meditation, and he is a frequent conference/keynote speaker as an expert in the field of holistic medicine and emotional healing processes.